Christine Wade

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Curator of Louis L. Goldstein ’35 Program in Public Affairs, Faculty Advisor for the Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration and Latin American Studies Concentration

Education

Dr. Wade, who joined the faculty of Washington College in the fall of 2003, received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College in 1994, her M.A. from Georgia State University in 1996, and her Ph.D. from Boston University in 2003.

Research

Dr. Wade is a specialist in the international and comparative politics of Latin America, with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean. Much of her field research is conducted in El Salvador and Nicaragua, interviewing public officials, analysts and members of civil society. She has also served as an accredited election observer for various presidential, legislative and local elections in El Salvador.

She is the co-author of Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion and Change (Westview Press, 2014) and Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle (Westview Press, 2011). Her co-authored book A Revolução Salvadorenha (The Salvadoran Revolution) is as part of the Revolutions of the Twentieth Century Collection at São Paulo: Fundação Editora Da UNESP (2006). She is also the author of several publications on the FMLN, peacebuilding and post-war politics in El Salvador, and Central America. Dr. Wade is currently completing a manuscript on the politics of peacebuilding in El Salvador.

Teaching

Dr. Wade received the 2012 Washington College Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. She offers courses on Latin American Politics, U.S - Latin American Relations, Comparative Peace Processes, Theories of Peace and Conflict, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, Human Rights and Social Justice, and the Politics of Development. She is the advisor to the Latin American Concentration and Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration.